The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-04-20

II awful 20 see 20 what depths Gf deceit
those old people VIII descend %
And what can you expect when YOU
offer them a premium on iteT
And what did YOU 10. Alien Taylor
Tobacco. indeed -
4 fought the devil with hizown weap-
ons offered her a prize package Of old
Durham to return to her dirt and diet,
and ce;rse inyeigling more girls and inno-
cent young men into her shanty by
shamming sickness.
Hank who had begun TO be weary and
discouraged, looked up with interest and
poked Allen in th= back.
say a word for me, won't yeu, cap
tain?'
Allen gave him an assuring nod.
Don't you think, Alice, it would be
a good thing to dve them toJesse Doak,
Alice continued.
The very thing, He could preach IN
them, and marry people and bury people
How jolly
Il believe Mrs Murtroyd would call
war, pestilence. and famine jolly said
Allen but / can tell YOU that little mig
ger preacher couldn't keepin them. He'd
slip through
Tm going to have Them taken in
said Bessie. with dignity
Taken in but you can't take in. and
let ont. and splice men clothes nobody
ever heard Of such "a thing
Then al I've got to say is. Mr.. Allen,
if men can never wear made-over clothes
they've missed one of the great JOYS of
life" chimed in Alice.
There you do have the advantage Of
US. But if my opinion Is of any value,
viii give IT, think those clothes ought
F. TO 90 to some voting man.
Are you speaking foryourself?"
You haven't heard me-to some hon
est Young felIoy who's going TO get mar
ried. Hank have YOU a girl ?" Allen
asked. in a low tone over his shoulder
No. cap.
Then get one.
declare, 5hat isn't bad idea, Bes-
sic
81 think my mind is quite made up."
Bessie answered, with dignity.
Hank sighed but Allen encouraged
him with a wink
The io-boat landed and the girls start
ed 70 the school house.
What's the matter between YOU and
Allen Taylor Bessie Don'tyou speak ?'
~Of course we speak, a. YOU call it.
Wen, not often, if I'm sjudge. It isn't
about Lulu George %
No.7 exclaimed Bessie, Indignantly.
But what about Lulu tieorge ." she
asked. more mildly.
He had her at Blind Toms the other
night
Do you think am Jealous, Alice Muir
troyd ?'
Well, then, what i it? You might
tell me I'm married"
The reason did not seem adequate. and
Bessie was silent.
Il always told youeyerything 1t tcan't
be that old affair. Gracious goodness
haven't you got over that weu, never.
If YOU were married. would get tired
making fuss about a little thing =c
long"
Then you think it is a little thing To
come to ones house. ami before a girls
father and mother, too. after having ta-
ken too much wine2
What did he DO, Bess?7
He said Mr.. Dean, you have "a very
nice daughter Eve been telling my
friends about her and they said they'd
like TO see her. 20 we're here
Mrs Nurtroyd shriekedlvith laughter
What did your father SAY
Afterward he said my friends We're
slightly exhiIarated.
That wasn't much He's man he
knows. You see. Bes-, she said. taking
Bessie, arm, eonddentiaiiy, where men
are concerned, YOU have to look al eve
rything all around. 1t ISN'T ike women.
who have everything cui and dried for
them.
But YOU don't seem to see. Alice
perhaps its hecau.e you're married
tina. demand for my presence "a little
respect.
That's 4 natty little speech. Bessie
Deau But ann married. ani m give you
a little bitofadviee. In this world you've
got To- take things by small and large
Allen always did like YOU better than
any other giri in town, and I've an idea
YOU Ike Allen, 50 don't 70 and make
yourself wretched for nothing
Nothing
Well, a little thing. as things 20. sad
Mrs Nontroyd. out of her own large ex-
perience
Allen meanwhile stepped behind
Did Won hear what said Hank
Yes, cap.
Well. heed it. Go coUrting. and IN
see you through"
She seems nightly sot
Miss Dean Yes. But I'm softer.
Il
Finally the water stopped rising. and
is subsidence was more rapid than it,
rise, aud 10 the eve more terrible. The
houses were left coated with yellow slime
and the town a mud hole. Men mount
ed tie tallest horses and went out 10 seek
their possessions. -Four barns sat down
on one lot ike gossips swapping stories.
\ house went down the road and placed
itself plumb on the foundations Of an
other house. The smaller houses. as tito
escape detection. Turned upside down a.
they skipped beneath their owners ewes,
and now hid under sand and drift piles.
The chi ken coops and pigstiles were r.
leased from the back doors. where they
bad been tied ike children to keep them
from playing tr,ant
Whereas there had been no work. there
was now more than could be done. But
the crowds around the eschool house were
greater, and scorned - a day offered for
house cleaners. The esupplies still poured
in. a--iinsts the protests Of the telegraph
70 stop supplies 1t became necessary to
protect the overwerked committees. and
sentiuels armed with rifles paced between
the school house and the muruiurinsr